Mr. Squeamie and the basement woes.

Well hey there, everyone! Another week, more drama. Well, not really drama, but you will see what I mean in a second.

First up in the news department, I got a black eye this week. I got it by opening the passenger side door of my van while Carter was throwing a massive fit. Unfortunately I was paying more attention to what was going on with Carter ( I was giving him a stern talking to) instead of what was going on with the door,  and I hit the corner of the door squarely into my eye.

Yes. Yes it did hurt. Yes. A lot.

The house is moving forward. Logan and I knocked out an old basement window and tried our hand at laying bricks. Guess what? We got mason blood running through us! Haha! Logan took the inside of the basement to clean up the mortar on the inside wall, Sami manned the mortar keeping it stirred and adding a little water here and there, and I figured out how to lay brick, somehow managing to get mortar everywhere. The most important thing though is that one window is bricked up. Yes!

Meanwhile, we are getting the basement knocked out. Trevor tackled the knock-down of all the ceiling and walls down there; and it was no easy task. There were TWO layers of drywall on the ceiling (because these people were just so so so dumb. They were dumb!).  I know it was hard, because that's what I was trying to knock down when "the accident with Logan" occured. The ceiling was riddled with years and years of mouse poop. It was THE. MOST. DISGUSTING. THING. I am not kidding. Ugh. One particular time, Trevor pulled a huge chunk of ceiling down and the dust and mouse poop was just so thick, some of it went into his mouth. He couldn't hold it together, and the vomit spewed forth. Trevor was out for a few minutes, but luckily when I say he "spewed," he made it into a trash can, so Sami and I cleaned it up and a few minutes later we were all back to work.

So now that brings me to my other news: We are still not able to drink our well water. Trevor hooked up a hose bib to the main water line in the house in town last week, and then I had it turned on for the very first time since we bought the house. It was exciting to have water there. We are filling up lots of jugs and whatever containers we have, and they just sit on our kitchen counter all week while we drink out of them. It's actually very annoying to brush your teeth out of a cup.

Oh yeah, and more news: We are flooding out here again. The river is overflowing, and since last night, it was about a half of a mile away from us. I'm hoping that we will be out of its path, since it would have to come up a slight hill. Only morning will tell what happened while we were sleeping. Yesterday the water traveled about a half mile overnight.

Man! I'm ready for a break now. I told ya, a lot of crazy drama out here.